American College of Nurse Midwives NJ - ACNM

05/05/2026

Happy International Day of the Midwife 🌸🤍

04/27/2026

NJ Midwifery Day 2026! Thank you to all for being a part of this wonderful day and growing midwifery in NJ

04/22/2026

04/19/2026

This is our annual educational day. Join us to witness presentations from some of the best speakers in the country while earning CEUs, networking with other midwives of the state and beyond, and visiting our exhibit hall. Ob/Gyns, WHNPs, PAs, students, and other women’s health providers are welcome!

Sunday, April 26, 2026, 8:00 AM – 3:45 PM
Capital Health Medical Center

Hopewell, NJ

Register link below ⬇️

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/njaffiliateoftheamericancollegeofnursemidwives/2094548

04/09/2026

This is our annual educational day. Join us to witness presentations from some of the best speakers in the country while earning CEUs, networking with other midwives of the state and beyond, and visiting our exhibit hall. Ob/Gyns, WHNPs, PAs, students, and other women’s health providers are welcome!

Sunday, April 26, 2026, 8:00 AM – 3:45 PM
Capital Health Medical Center

Hopewell, NJ

Register link in below!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/njaffiliateoftheamericancollegeofnursemidwives/2094548

03/13/2026

MARCH 15th LAST DAY FOR EARLY BIRD PRICES!!! See link in below!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/njaffiliateoftheamericancollegeofnursemidwives/2094548

03/12/2026

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS MARCH 15th!

This is our annual educational day. Join us to witness presentations from some of the best speakers in the country while earning CEUs, networking with other midwives of the state and beyond, and visiting our exhibit hall. Ob/Gyns, WHNPs, PAs, students, and other women’s health providers are welcome!

Sunday, April 26, 2026, 8:00 AM – 3:45 PM
Capital Health Medical Center

Hopewell, NJ

Register link in bio!

03/12/2026

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS MARCH 15th!

This is our annual educational day. Join us to witness presentations from some of the best speakers in the country while earning CEUs, networking with other midwives of the state and beyond, and visiting our exhibit hall. Ob/Gyns, WHNPs, PAs, students, and other women’s health providers are welcome!

Sunday, April 26, 2026, 8:00 AM – 3:45 PM
Capital Health Medical Center

Hopewell, NJ

Register link in below!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/njaffiliateoftheamericancollegeofnursemidwives/2094548

03/01/2026

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION FOR NEXT 2 WEEKS!

This is our annual educational day. Join us to witness presentations from some of the best speakers in the country while earning CEUs, networking with other midwives of the state and beyond, and visiting our exhibit hall. Ob/Gyns, WHNPs, PAs, students, and other women’s health providers are welcome!

Sunday, April 26, 2026, 8:00 AM – 3:45 PM
Capital Health Medical Center

Hopewell, NJ

Register at link below!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/njaffiliateoftheamericancollegeofnursemidwives/2094548?fbclid=PAVERFWAQRrRtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAadDaLU2Mpw590n9je7y3PrN0Bo9o75FtxS7eeeuonpABn1mF_A5pis30HCwSg_aem_wX_QIL-itQGQhCPYZMQq4w

02/25/2026

New Jersey!!!!

Throughout February, the Midwives of Color Council of the American College of Nurse-Midwives honors Black midwives whose impact continues to shape our profession. Today we celebrate Shirley White-Walker, RN, CNM, LNC, Ed.M, FACNM, servant-leader, advocate, truth-teller, and trailblazer.

Called to midwifery after witnessing a preventable maternal death while working as a charge nurse, she pursued the skills to ensure such loss would not happen on her watch. She became the first African American student in the inaugural midwifery class at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and, in 1977, the first Black midwife licensed in New Jersey. Recruited to faculty clinical practice, she spent nearly two decades caring for patients “who didn’t have a choice,” delivering the same high-quality care she would give her own family.

In the early 1980s, she chaired ACNM’s first Ad Hoc Committee on Minority Affairs, creating formal representation for Black, Latine, Asian, and Indigenous midwives. Those early gatherings of 50+ midwives in small hotel rooms evolved into today’s thriving Midwives of Color Council. She became an ACNM Fellow in 1997, served as Region II Representative on the Board, and was among the first African American midwives on the ACNM Foundation Board, advancing what is now the Midwives of Color Scholarship Fund. Her leadership also shaped the Midwifery History Caucus and Education Committee.
Her decades of service in hospitals and FQHCs across North Central NJ centered adolescents, families living with HIV, and underserved communities. In 2021, she received ACNM’s inaugural Health Equity Award; in 2022, the Dorothea M. Lang Pioneer Award (with Maria Valentin-Welch and Karline Wilson-Mitchell). In 2024, she was honored at Rutgers University during the 50th anniversary of one of the nation’s oldest midwifery programs, addressing students as an inaugural alumna.

For over four decades, Shirley White-Walker has modeled what it means to be a midwife activist at the bedside and in the halls of power, advancing equity, representation, and justice in midwifery. Her legacy challenges us to keep breaking barriers and nurturing the next generation.

02/16/2026

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Throughout February, the Midwives of Color Council of the American College of Nurse-Midwives is honoring Black Midwives who have made a lasting impact on our profession.
Today, we recognize a leader who gave her heart and soul to the American College of Nurse-Midwives—as a former ACNM Vice President, Chair of the Division of Accreditation, a leader within the Research and Publications Divisions, and the pioneering “Mother” of the Midwives of Color Committee.

Dr. Betty Carrington, CNM, EdD, FACNM, is a true pioneer in midwifery. Early in her career, she spent her first year unable to deliver babies because physicians did not want her “touching their white patients.” Undeterred, Dr. Carrington used that year to read the entire midwifery curriculum—knowing she would one day be called. And she was.

Her work laid the foundation for representation, equity, and leadership in midwifery, spanning clinical practice, academic leadership, governance, and mentorship—helping shape who becomes a midwife and how care is delivered in the United States.

As a clinical leader, Dr. Carrington served as Director of the Nurse-Midwifery Service at Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn, NY (1972–1979) and as Nurse-Midwife Research Associate at Harlem Hospital through Columbia University. In these roles, she served underserved communities and demonstrated the value of culturally grounded, relational, and community-centered care decades before maternal health equity became a policy priority.
As an academic leader, she served as an Associate Professor at SUNY Health Science Center (1979–1996) and was among the few Black Nurse-Midwifery Program Directors, leading the Graduate Nurse-Midwifery Program at Columbia University (1986–1991). She integrated cultural context, nutrition, and community realities into midwifery education, shaping generations of midwives to deliver holistic, culturally informed care.

Dr. Carrington rose to numerous national leadership roles, including becoming ACNM’s first Black Vice President in the early 1970s. She later served as Chair of the ACNM Division of Accreditation (1999–2004), helping define national education standards for nurse-midwifery, and also served in ACNM’s Research and Publications Divisions.

In 2001, Dr. Carrington received ACNM’s highest honor, the Hattie Hemschmeyer Award, becoming only the second African American midwife to receive this distinction.
She is truly the mother of the Midwives of Color Council. Long before the Midwives of Color Committee was formally established in 1991, Dr. Carrington spent decades convening midwives and student midwives of color in her hotel room at ACNM annual meetings—creating space for support, mentorship, encouragement, and leadership.

Her legacy lives on through the Midwives of Color Council and the Carrington–Hsia–Nieves Doctoral Scholarship for Midwives of Color, which she co-founded with Lily Hsia and Nieves Fitch. Thank you, Dr. Betty Carrington.